This is an analysis of the poem From "Snow-Bound," 11:1-40, 116-154 that begins with:
The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbacddddeffegggghhhhbbhhiidd ddjjkkjjff ddllllllddggjjjjjjaaeemmacXeeebbbllddmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,10,39,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11010101 11010111 01011101 110101001 011100100 01010111 01010101 01111101 01111111 01110001 111101001 01100101 01000111 01111101 01010101 11011101 101101111 11101101 10010101 10011001 11011101 10110101 11010111 01010101 01011111 11000101 01010101 01010101 110100101 100110111 01110001 01110001 11100101 110100011 11100010001 11010111 01110101 11010111 10111101 11111001 01011101 010111001 010101001 11011101 01010101 01011111 11010111 010100101 110101001 010111001 11011101 10110101 11111101 01011101 110100101 110000101 110100101 110110111 11111101 01110101 011101001 11010101 01000100 1001110001 110111100 101011010 01010101 11010111 100000101 01110111 11111101 11110101 01010101 01010111 11011101 11011001 110110001 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 970
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of From "Snow-Bound," 11:1-40, 116-154;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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